The close up shows the screen was black not green, although it is difficult to be sure. In one scene, Wilma pulls up a video of a previous event. She types something on the keyboard and then actually presses "play" on the recorder. On Mon, 1 Apr 2019, Mike Stein wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Schmidt" <ocleide@earthlink.net> > To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de> > Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2019 10:40 PM > Subject: RE: Buck Rogers and the Commodore PET > > >> All this is to say that the bezel color is probably not a very reliable >> indicator of PET age, at least in the sense that a black bezel does not >> necessarily mean that it is NOT an early one. > > Agreed. The phosphor colour might be a better indication; AFAIK the early ones had white phosphor CRTs while the later ones were green. > > But everything could be upgraded; there was an upgrade kit that replaced the upper case half with the new keyboard and the newer bezel and label, and even the green CRTs were available. On the other hand, especially in schools, old motherboards were often replaced with new ones. > > m > > > wlevak@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.orgReceived on 2019-04-03 02:00:04
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